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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We Start-up | Mondays. Technology | Thursdays.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

This probably wasn’t a fun period of time for a new VC but nonetheless probably made Mike stronger than having started in 1997. Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. Venture Financings we Discussed. Total raised: $18.3mm.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 26: Javier Saade and Hillary Hartley

Steve Blank

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. He also co-founded three companies: a broadcasting network, Air America Media, a solar energy company, Atenergy and a branding agency, Brand Maestro.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year. Ajay Prasad, the founder of GMR Web Team < [link] > #15) Take Advantage of an Opportunity. 16) Bring Change.

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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

crowdSPRING Blog

The Outer Limits of Lunar Exploration Hilton F – Space sector representatives will discuss how the use of web and mobile technologies create opportunities for participation in future exploration of the Moon. Adobe product managers and evangelists will be sharing the latest on mobile development with Flash and more from Adobe Labs.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

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Warren Buffet, 1997. If you download their mobile app, Krispy Kreme will give you a free doughnut , McDonald’s will give you a free large fries , and Baskin-Robbins will give you a free scoop of ice cream. The founders, the CEO, the CFO, the executives, the employees, and the venture investors. I don’t think so.

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